MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Prabhu mean?
Prabhu is a Sanskrit title for a lord or master. Reverential uses include divine address and respectful address to a person.
Pronunciation
IAST: prabhu
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
प्रभु
Letter-by-letter: prabhu
Conventional spelling
Kannada
ಪ್ರಭು
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Prabhu in Indian usage
100,361 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (96%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 4,060 records (4%).
- Recorded as male: 96,301 records (96%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 2,567 |
| 1940s | 7,039 |
| 1950s | 13,425 |
| 1960s | 21,169 |
| 1970s | 23,744 |
| 1980s | 19,533 |
| 1990s | 12,172 |
| Other decades | 712 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 33,489 |
| Rajasthan | 21,927 |
| Jharkhand | 10,160 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 8,863 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 7,655 |
| Karnataka | 4,433 |
| Haryana | 3,291 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 2,721 |
| Maharashtra | 2,160 |
| Kerala | 1,163 |
| Delhi | 1,061 |
| Odisha | 827 |
| Punjab | 704 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 561 |
| Uttarakhand | 405 |
| Puducherry | 336 |
| Assam | 138 |
| Chandigarh | 105 |
| Other states | 362 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, prabhu, p. 684,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.